* Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> [2007-03-16 00:15]: > I'd never noticed this behavior before, and I tried it out and > it wasn't how my Firefox works. Turns out to be a side-effect > of the wonderful Tab Mix Plus add-on which has many wonderful > benefits. > > While on the subject of tabs, I'd also recommend the "No Tab > Close Button" add-on which eliminates the oh-so easy to > accidentally click "close tab" button Firefox decided to put on > their tabs after everyone else had removed them. Sort of like > putting a pile of jagged glass on the right hand side of every > seat in the house.
Getting rid of the per-tab close buttons can be done with just `about:config`, as I mentioned in the other mail, without the need for an extension. The problem is I already have 16 extensions in the Firefox on my main machine, and that's not counting the DOM Inspector and Talkback that come pre-installed. And 5 of them are unbreak-me extensions. I really try not to add even more to the mix because Firefox is slow and memory hungry enough as it is. I used an extension to make tabs draggable back when they weren't (pre-1.0 I think? I don't remember), but when that capability was added to stock Firefox, I dropped the extension like a hot potato. The various tabbing enhancement extensions used to be the worst offenders in terms of drag, noticably slowing down the browser, although that was a long time ago and I don't know what things are like now. Since then, the basic Firefox tabbing has always worked well enough for me. Guess that's no longer true. *snarl* Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
